Suppose you are the production manager of a small perfectly competitive firm making a single product. Explain whether each of the following factors does or does not affect the profit maximizing level of output your perfectly competitive firm makes. Is your answer different in the short run compared to the long run. Explain.  1. Employee wages increase 2. Interest rates go down on the loans held by the firm 3. Deamnd for the firm's product increases

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Suppose you are the production manager of a small perfectly competitive firm making a single product. Explain whether each of the following factors does or does not affect the profit maximizing level of output your perfectly competitive firm makes. Is your answer different in the short run compared to the long run. Explain. 

1. Employee wages increase

2. Interest rates go down on the loans held by the firm

3. Deamnd for the firm's product increases

 

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